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Bakhrabad massacre

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Date
  
24 May 1971 (UTC+6:00)

Weapons
  
Light Machine Guns

Target
  
Bengali Hindus

Deaths
  
142

Bakhrabad massacre

Location
  
Bakhrabad, Comilla, Bangladesh

Attack type
  
Burst fire, mass murder, massacre

Bakhrabad massacre (Bengali: বাখরাবাদ হত্যাকান্ড) was a massacre of the Hindu population of Bakhrabad village, in the district of the Comilla, on 24 May 1971 by the Pakistani army with the help of Al Badr and Al Shams, during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

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